EFFECTS OF HIV AND AIDS ON SURVIVING BREADWINNER CHILDREN

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EFFECTS OF HIV AND AIDS ON SURVIVING BREADWINNER
CHILDREN

• Roland Edgar Mhlanga
• Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine
• University of KwaZulu-Natal
• DURBAN
• South Africa

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Breadwinner Children, HIV and AIDS

• Children are from God harm them at your peril
• KwaZulu-Natal epicentre of epidemic in South
  Africa with prevalence of gt40
• Poverty
• Stigma
• Caring for children

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Breadwinner Children, HIV and AIDS

• UN CRC
• Poverty, hunger and destitution force children
  into trafficking rings
• Over 500 000 orphans in South Africa but true
  number is not known
• Child-headed households needs of children
• Drop out of school, stigma, poverty

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Breadwinner Children, HIV and AIDS

• Work
• Agricultural
• Housemaid sexual exploitation pregnancy
  poverty
• Home industries
• Gugu with three siblings and a grant
• Commercial or subsistence sex workers
• Hlengiwe lost her uterus

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Breadwinner Children, HIV and AIDS

• RESPONSE
• Government sponsored and monitored child care
  facilities
• Monitoring of programme
• Support of children psychologically and socially
  with community participation
• Large experimentation
• The ruins that are childrens lives

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Breadwinner Children, HIV and AIDS

• A street has never given birth to a child on
  Street Kid, Oliver Mtukudzi
• Botswana model
• Protection against sexual and emotional abuse,
  nurturing
• Committee for the Rights of the Child

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Breadwinner Children, HIV and AIDS

• I cried when Mama died
• There was silence
• I cried when we were thrown out
• There was silence
• Till when will you be silent?
• Till I am silent?
• Do you not love me?
• You told God you care about me!